“Black forest” cake at La Pâtisserie des rêves 111 rue de Longchamp, Paris. I don’t know how they managed to put the classic “Black Forest” cake (layers of chocolate cake, maraschino cherries and whipped cream) into a crunchy chocolate cherry, but I must say I have never seen such an…

Café Pushkin at Printemps department store is the most exciting thing that happened to the Parisian pastry scene since Pierre Hermé started selling his rose macarons. It’s is a spin-off of the same name pastry shop in Moscow and I suppose it is directly connected with the famous Pushkin café.…

…La Pâtisserie des Rêves , the recently opened Phillippe Continici pastry shop in the 7th. As L’Express Styles magazine mentioned in November, “la pâtisserie surcréative” is out, while “les gâteaux classiques” are in. Will La Pâtisserie des Rêves dethrone the French pastry king Pierre Hermé? (the man who dared to…

Since Japan has opened up for foreigners at the end of the 19th century, beef has become a very popular product in Japanese cuisine. In fact, the Japanese are so obsessed about the quality of their beef that when you go to a good teppanyaki or sukiyaki restaurant, they would…

Here is a recipe of strawberry trifle that is fresh, refreshing and very fast to make. And as I am not a big cook and almost never cook I love effortless recipes 🙂 I was inspired by a recipe I found online but made quite a few changes. Instead of…

The most famous pastry chef in the world did it again. This time Pierre Herme married potatoes with lemon confit, saffron jelly, sweetcorns and pieces of potatoes cooked with saffron juice for one of his “émotion extravagant” (available since last December). I liked the lemony taste with saffron twist, but…

After a slight disappointment at Lampreia ( I do think the chef is very talented, but I was not lucky with my first dish. Cured tuna is really not for me.. While my friend’s beetroot soup and veal were delicious.) I went for “more casual” places in Seattle. One of…

Seattle Farmers Market..

What can be more fashionable than cakes created “in the style of the world’s finest designers”? This is what London Berkeley’s afternoon tea time “Prêt-à-portea” is about. “Balenciaga vanilla and blueberry chequered bavarois”, “Chanel stars and stripes strawberry and vanilla pannacotta” or “Lanvin purple macaroon with raspberry ganache”. I love…

Jet lag on the first day in Tokyo was tough. At 4 am I still didn’t feel like sleeping, so being awake early in the morning was a great opportunity to visit the Tsukiji market. What I saw there was mindblowing, the most impressive market I have ever seen. Huge…